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The Countdown to Fedora 11 Begins

Affix — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:38:04 +0000

Fedora 11 is less than two weeks away. The excitement is in the air and we all can’t wait to see the product of more than a few long months of hard work. It’s prime time to start talking about what users can expect to see, highlight new features and describe some of the enhancements that we can all look forward too. As part of a series of podcast and print interviews, Today, I would like to present the first podcast in the Fedora 11 Podcast series, an interview with long time Fedora contributor and Fedora Release Engineer Jesse Keating. The audio can be found here:

“Fedora 11 General Overview with Fedora Release Engineer Jesse Keating”

In the interview, Jesse talks to us about the achievement milestone of putting together 11 releases, the process of planning and putting together a Fedora release, how it was done for F11 and also some of the tools, which he helped create which are used to put together the Fedora distribution. He talks about Pungi [https://fedorahosted.org/pungi/] and Revisor [http://revisor.fedoraunity.org/] which are tools used to compose the Fedora tree and create a custom remix or re-spin, respectively. He also talks about some of the changes which have taken place under the hood to enable Fedora’s new faster and improved boot up. Jesse takes us on a whirlwind tour of some of the greatest enhancements we can look forward to in F11, including changes to PackageKit and a new upstream version of RPM, the new default ext4 filesystem, enhanced fingerprint support for authentication and what we can look forward to in the future releases of Fedora.

The Full Fedora 11 Feature list can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/11/FeatureList and you can look forward to more in depth coverage of some of those features and of the upcoming release in the days to come. Fedora 11 is sure to prove a highly innovative and technologically advanced release.

Fedora 11. Get ready. There’s reason to be excited!

Fedora 10 Release

Affix — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:39:14 +0000

Fedora 10 Out Now!

As some of you may know Fedora 10 has made its final release yesterday. There are numerous new features in Fedora 10 Such as the brand new Gnome 2.24.

A full feature list can be found here(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/FeatureList)

You can download Fedora Via Torrent or Direct from HTTP and FTP(rsync is also available).

If you cannot download fedora Drop me an email (affix@FedoraProject.org) With your name and Address and I will ship you a free Disk. Please also tell me what Architecture you are using. E.g (i386(32bit), x86)64(64bit), or PowerPC).

Otherwise GET FEDORA NOW!!

Why protect links with fileblip.com? Does it really matter?

Mystalia — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:53:52 +0000

First we need to realise exactly what people are going to use such a service for, and that is basically one of two things. URL Shortening and File Location Protection.

Software companys like beepa are working hard to protect their software and remove files from pirate websites. Which, technically, is a nice and easy task unless pirates are careful about exactly what they display to a user OR a crawling bot.

What fileblip does is to remove the url to the file even from its own source code so an average user would have no idea where the file is located. Therefore there is no link to report and nobody to report it to.

So how is this legal? Well if the file is publically available and in breach of copyright then the only people committing the crime is the host of the file, all fileblip is programmed to do is hide the host site using standard web scripts.